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FKIE_CVE-2023-32067

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-05-25 23:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:58
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. c-ares is vulnerable to denial of service. If a target resolver sends a query, the attacker forges a malformed UDP packet with a length of 0 and returns them to the target resolver. The target resolver erroneously interprets the 0 length as a graceful shutdown of the connection. This issue has been patched in version 1.19.1.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/releases/tag/cares-1_19_1Release Notes
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-9g78-jv2r-p7vcThird Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00034.htmlMailing List
security-advisories@github.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5Z5XFNXTNPTCBBVXFDNZQVLLIE6VRBY/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UBFWILTA33LOSV23P44FGTQQIDRJHIY7/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-09Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240605-0004/
security-advisories@github.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5419Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/releases/tag/cares-1_19_1Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/security/advisories/GHSA-9g78-jv2r-p7vcThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00034.htmlMailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5Z5XFNXTNPTCBBVXFDNZQVLLIE6VRBY/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UBFWILTA33LOSV23P44FGTQQIDRJHIY7/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-09Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240605-0004/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5419Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
c-ares_project c-ares *
fedoraproject fedora 37
fedoraproject fedora 38
debian debian_linux 10.0
debian debian_linux 11.0
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